Every night in the month of April we'll be jumping from one literary London plaque to another, connecting each plaque to another literary figure commemorated elsewhere in London with a nugget of literary trivia. Creative collaborations, romantic entanglements, feuds, places-in-common, the links will vary, but over the course of 30 days we'll have covered poets, biographers, novelists, humourists, critics, thriller writers and more until we have arrived full circle back at plaque number one!
28. Graham Greene and his character Lady
Caroline Bury in It's A Battlefield (1934). Greene performed that all-too-rare
feat of spanning genre and literary fiction with equal success. He was married
at St Mary's Church in Hampstead, around the corner from where can be found a
plaque dedicated to his mother's cousin…
We'll be back tomorrow night with our next
Plaque Tiddlywink. In the meantime, here's where to find tonight's plaque…
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